FLORENCE, Ala. — An Alabama prisoner obtained a life sentence on Thursday for escaping with the assistance of a jail official who in the end took her personal life as police closed in following a manhunt throughout three states.
Casey White, 39, advised these gathered within the Lauderdale County courtroom that he felt like essentially the most hated man on the earth however that he wouldn’t drag 56-year-old corrections officer Vicky White’s title “via the dust,” information shops reported. He mentioned Vicky White, who was not associated to him, was the primary one that cared about him in six years.
He apologized for the escape, saying Vicky White’s solely remorse was forsaking her household.
“We simply needed a brand new life collectively as a result of she knew the reality. I can deal with the reality as a result of I do know who I’m,” White mentioned. “I selected this street. It’s value me my life and freedom.”
White was serving a 75-year jail time period for an array of costs from 2015, together with tried homicide, and he was awaiting a capital homicide trial when he escaped in April 2022. The pair was on the run for 11 days till Casey White was recaptured in Evansville, Indiana. Vicky White died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
White pleaded responsible to flee in change for prosecutors dropping a felony homicide cost involving Vicky White’s dying, and agreed to the utmost sentence of life with out parole.
Casey White was additionally advised to inform the state if he, his household or attorneys obtain alternatives for books, motion pictures or different monetary alternatives associated to the escape, which made nationwide headlines, as any proceeds must be used to pay for his protection.
In the meantime, he nonetheless faces an Aug. 14 capital homicide trial for the 2015 slaying of Connie Ridgeway in Rogersville, Alabama. That trial was delayed within the aftermath of the escape and White retaining a brand new workforce of attorneys.
